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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 243
I have driven through a large part of the are held by the British Expeditionary Force, starting not many miles from G.H.Q., and reaching at my farthest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The second call-up of men who will reach 21 in the year ending June 30, 1940. will be made at Newcastle West Drill Hall to-day and to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The hail this season for the third time in succession has put the fruitgrowers in the Amiens Soldiers' Settlement area in a serious position. A report on the position…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A member of the Second A.I.F. who, with a companion, went into the surf at Newcastle beach yesterday, was caught in a treacherous current and had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—There has been a good deal sail in reference to soldiers having to sleep on the beaches and in parks. I agree with all that has been written through your…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Arrangements for a football match between British and French soldiers have been delayed because the French any that a soldier may represent the army in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tenders have been invited and will close on January 20 for the erection and completion of a weatherboard Church Army recreation hut at Greta…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The committee of the Newcastle and District Patriotic and War Fund will consider a hostel in the Newcastle district for soldiers on leave…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All effort is being mode by branches of the Returned Soldier Leagues in Newcastle and district to form district committees to arrange send-offs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mrs. W. W. Tennant, of Mount Hutton, entertained at her home on Saturday night to welcome home her daughter Helen, who has returned from a trip to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although Italy is separated from Hungary by Germany and Yugoslavia, Italy has formed a military alliance with Hungary,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BEFORE THE WAR. A glimpse of Cambridge before the war, when nationalities were there and all were friendly. A group, including a well-known Newcastle woman, Miss S. A. Leslie, taken at Newham College. The nationalists from left to right are: Yugoslavia, Poland, Australia, Italy, Rumania, Finland Poland, Sweden, Sweden, Italy, Poland, America, America, Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GIVING A CHEER, Members of the Royal Australian Air Force, on arrival in England, give a cheer to the waiting crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The first war loan, which is expected to exceed £20,000,000, will probably be floated in the first week of February at 37 per cent, or less…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN THE four months since war was declared, millions of women in Europe and the countries of the British Empire have seen startling changes that strike at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An appeal that no effort should be spared to save a repetition of the spectacle of A.I.F. troops sleeping on Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Despite public clamor for information, details concerning the resignation of Mr. Hore-Belisha from the War Ministry remain strictly secret. MR.HORE-BELISHA, after a quiet…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The increasing burden of taxation on the German people is discussed by the Danish newspaper "Politiken," which quotes reports from its Berlin…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The present British Army in France, large as it is known to be, is "merely the advance-guard" of enormous forces which Britain intends to send across the Channel. "You will see column after column arriving and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Asked what he thought of his appointment as Chief of the Australian Air Staff, Sir Charles Bur. nett snapped "O.K." His opinion…
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